Viewfinder: A School for Displaced Iraqi Children

Displaced Iraqi children from the former embattled city of Mosul attend school at the Hasan Sham camp, east of Erbil in northern Iraq, on November 20th, 2017. Iraq's second city, Mosul was recaptured in July after being taken in a summer 2014 offensive by the Islamic State group.

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